VPN Access

[Ian]

I have set up a Certificate Authority on our server to
limit access to trusted personell. I have requested and
installed a certificate on my remote workstation.

I setup the RRAS policy to use certificates. I have also
set up the advanced security options on my client to use
the certificate.

When I try to connect, I get Error 691: Access was denied
because the username and/or password was invalid on the
domain.

If I connect in the conventional manner, it works fine

What am I doing wrong?

 

[Ian]

I've found out what the problem is..

The Event Log on the server says that I have tried to
connect with the credentials I logged into my remote pc
with, rather than the crendentials I specified in the dial-
up connection.

I ticked the options to prompt for a user name and
password but the prompt doesn't appear, presumably because
I am using a certificate. So my login credentials appear
to have been transmitted instead.

So what now?

 

[Ian]

OK so i've found now that the name on the certificate
needs to be name that server expects to authenticate when
I login remotely. So now I have issued a new certificate
with the correct name.

Instead of getting an authentication error. It now just
sits there trying until a timeout occurs. I can only think
that the server is waiting for a password to be supplied.

Hello!! is anybody there?